A determinative for heaven or sky
A determinative for a fight or attack
A determinative for a knife or a sword.
A determinative for beetles
A determinative for a child.
A determinative for a womb or a belly.
A determinative for flesh or meat
A determinative for a prisoner.
A determinative for liquids
A determinative for a woman
A determinative for a goddess
The Hieroglyphs has in its structure a pictogram and phonogram units, similarly to the Asian group of languages. The pictogram or the determinative picture specifies the exact meaning. Also the determinative can be a stereotype for the similar type of items or words. Once the text is to describe a flock of birds the determinative remains the same even with the changes seen at the names of each bird. The determinative also can express about emotions, feelings, actions and motion. In the late Hieroglyphs some of the inscriptions used to have pictograms or determinative without phonograms relying much on the ability of the readers to understand the meaning and to read it and on other cases the phonogram was abbreviated or reduced. Sometimes the pictogram can be used in a negative way in order to mislead specially once the scribe is forced to reveal some of his deep knowledge, he would use the determinative to show uncertainty as it is in the case of writing some medical prescriptions such as the one at Komombow temple.
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